-
Theater Strahl
Marktstraße 9-12
ÖPNV
10317 Berlin
»Ostkreuz, Exit Sonntagstraße, due to construction work 10-15min more time«
-
S7, S8, S5, S3194, 187
-
Dimonis
Dämonen (Demons)
- cabosanroque, Katalonien
- Duration 45 Minutes
-
In German spoken and written language
In Englisg spoken and written language on November 8 at 8pm and 9pm as well as November 10 at 3pm and 4pm - Adults 16,50 € | reduced 11,50 €
An immersive installation with sound, objects and video
Barcelona at the end of the last century, shaken up by anarchism, communism, Darwinism and spiritualism. Jacint Verdaguer, one of the most influential authors in the Catalan language, is working as a priest in the impoverished districts of the city. In this function, he takes part in a series of exorcisms and records these experiences in his journals. His notes are astonishingly contemporary – they address explicit questions about ownership and estrangement, the diversity of the body, social constructs, pandemic conditions, the way that human beings interact with the world and marginalized bodies.
Together with the dancer Rocía Molina and the singer Niño de Elche as well as with a multitude of artists and scholarships who have concerned themselves with the concept of possession, cabosanroque have created a ceremony of sound and images: 20 audience members enter the installation and simultaneously become passive as well as active subjects – surrounded by percussion made using inflatable pool toys, whispers coming from miniature speakers, beats from an old slatted bed frame and the spherical drops of water.
Information About Accessibility: You can find information about the physical accessibility of the performance venue here. The members of the audience are asked to wear protective covers over their shoes. The members of the audience will move independently through the installation; there are no seats. Stroboscope-like lighting effects and loud music will both be used over the course of the performance. A short text is also performed in English spoken language in the German-language version.
Dates
7.11. Thu
8.11. Fri
9.11. Sat
10.11. Sun
Concept, direction, creation, dramaturgy, sound design, composition, scenography
cabosanroque (Laia Torrents Carulla, Roger Aixut Sampietro)
Text
Jacint Verdaguer, Maya Deren
Original music
cabosanroque and adaptions of »Veni Creator Spiritus« by Rabanus Maurus and »The Unanswered Question« by Charles Ives
Light design
Cube.bz, cabosanroque
Video
FRAU. Recerques Visuals
Featuring
Niño de Elche (Flamenco singer), Rocío Molina (Dancer), Enric Casasses (Poet), Manuel Delgado (Anthropologist), Gerard Horta (Anthropologist), Ricard Torrents (Verdaguer specialist), Carme Torrents (Musicologist), Lourdes Porquet (Virologist), Xavier Rebodosa (Virologist), Helena Pielias und Vicenç Viaplana (Video artists), Laia Torrents and Roger Aixut (cabosanroque), Núria Martínez Vernis (Poet), Jordina Boix (Head of the Jacint Verdaguer Foundation), Joan Solana
Voices, Speakers of the German-language version
Max Grosse Majench, Christina Schultz
Translation into German: Àxel Sanjosé
Co-production
Grec 2020 Festival Barcelona, Temporada Alta 2019, La Filature Scène National de Mulhouse, Luís Coromina Foundation
Funded by
Kulturabteilung der Generalitat de Catalunya, Jacint Verdaguer Foundation
With thanks to
Casa Museu Verdaguer, Fachbereich für Sozialanthropologie der Universität Barcelona, CCCB (Centre of Contemporary Culture Barcelona), Enric Cassasses
The German-language version is a work commissioned for the 2024 edition of Theater der Dinge and is supported by
Institut Ramon Llull
This guest performance is supported by
Institut Ramon Llull